The Sambyeolcho had laid low until the end of 1271, during which time, they had sought help from the Japanese Kamakura Shogunate.

Regained their strength to some degree the following year, they repeatedly loot the Korean coast.

A combined Goryeo-Mongol assault begins in February 1272, and crushes the rebels in April.

Hereafter, the Mongols will directly controlled the Tamna kingdom until 1294.

Michael has reneged on his 1265 promise to restore to the Bulgarians the seaports of Anchialus and Mesembria; the Bulgarians, seeking to regain them by force, invade the Empire in 1272, but, unsuccessful in this, finally abandon their claim.

Within Syria, Baibars deals with the Assassins, the fanatical Shi'ite Islamic sect.

After seizing their major strongholds, he wipes out the Syrian members of the group in 1272, putting an end to their vision of a new Fatimid caliphate.

There are no records from travelers to the Nubian Christian kingdom Makuria from 1171 to 1272, and the events of this period have long been a mystery, although modern discoveries have shed some light on this era.

During this period, Makuria seems to have entered a steep decline.

The best source on this is Ibn Khaldun, writing several decades later, who blamed it on Bedouin invasions and Nubian intermarriage with Arabs.

The Ayyubid rulers of Egypt had dealt very aggressively with the Bedouin tribes of the nearby deserts, forcing them south into conflict with the Nubians.

Archaeology gives clear evidence of increasing instability in Makuria.

Once unfortified cities gained city walls, the people retreated to better defended positions, such as the cliff tops at Qasr Ibrim.

Houses throughout the region were built far sturdier, with secret hiding places for food and other valuables.

Archaeology also shows increased signs of Arabization and Islamicization.

Free trade between the kingdoms was part of the ancient trade treaty known as the bakt, and over time Arab merchants became prominent in Dongola and other cities.

Eventually the northern area, most of what was once Nobatia, had become largely Arabized and Islamicized.

Largely independent of Dongola it was increasingly referred to as al-Maris.

While the desert tribes may have been the most important destructive force, the campaigns of the Egyptian Mamlks are far better documented.

An important component of the bakt was the promise that Makuria would secure Egypt's southern border against raids by desert nomads, like the Beja.

The Makurian state could no longer do this, prompting interventions by Egyptian armies that further weakened it.

The Mamluk Sultan Baibars invaded in 1272 after King David I had attacked the Egyptian city of Aidhab, initiating several decades of intervention by the Mamluks in Nubian affairs.

Things now seem increasingly desperate for the crusaders, and in May 1272, Hugh III of Cyprus, the nominal king of Jerusalem, signs a ten–year truce with Baibars.

Edward is initially defiant, but an attack by a Muslim assassin in June forces him to abandon any further campaigning.

Although he manages to kill the assassin, he is struck in the arm by a dagger feared to be poisoned, and becomes severely weakened over the following months.

It not until September 24 that Edward leaves Acre for home.

The idea to build a Gothic cathedral in Narbonne had been a political decision made in 1268 by Pope Clement IV, the former archbishop of Narbonne, who had decided that it would be a monument made in the magnificent style of the Kingdom of France.

The construction of the new cathedral was supposed to have begin in 1264, but did not actually start until 1272.

The first stone of the current cathedral is laid by Archbishop Maruin on April 13, 1272, in the foundation of the current Chapel of the Sacred Heart.

Dedicated to Saints Justus and Pastor, the building is noted today for being unfinished.

The reasons are many, but the most important is that the completed cathedral would have required demolishing the city wall.

Foix, located at the junction of the Arget and Ariege rivers in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and, from the eleventh century, the capital of the powerful counts of Foix, had resisted attack during the crusade against the Albigenses but in the smooth and peaceful absorption of the counties of Toulouse, Poitiers, and Auvergne into the French state effected by King Philip III, finally becomes part of the French royal demesne in 1272.

The claim of Ottokar II to Friuli, acquired by him in 1272, is once again contested by the Hungarians on the field of battle.

After another victory, he becomes the most powerful king within the Empire.

King Afonso III of Portugal, now secure on the throne, proceed to make war with the Muslim communities that still thrive in the south.

The Algarve becomes part of the kingdom in his reign, following the capture of Faro, the last Moorish community in Portugal.

Thomas Aquinas had left Rome for a second Parisian period, where he had completed his greatest work, the Summa Theologiae.

The first part deals with the existence and nature of God and the universe he created, the second with human endeavors and ethics, and the third with Christ and the sacraments.

Thomas structures each part as a series of open questions, in answer to which he presents his opponents' arguments as well as his own before refuting the former.

Throughout the work, Thomas demonstrates his conviction that there can be no contradiction between the truths of Christian faith, based on divine revelation, and those of knowledge gained through human reason.